[haiku-development] Re: Where are the Mentors?

  • From: "Niels Reedijk" <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 14:16:08 +0200

Hi Axel,

2008/6/5 Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> as you may know, we sponsor 4 additional students via the Haiku Code
> Drive 2008.
> While we now have 4 students, we currently have only 3 mentors so far
> that volunteered to mentor them (Michael Pfeiffer, Rene Gollent, and
> me). The current distribution looks like this:
>
> * BFS stress-testing/UDF port to new FS Haiku API (Salvatore Benedetto)
> * DV media node (JiSheng Zhang) -- Rene Gollent
> * CUPS port (Jovan Ivankovic) -- Michael Pfeiffer
> * ICMP error handling and propagation (Yin Qiu)
>
> We had plenty of mentors before, so is there anyone who could mentor
> either Salvatore or Yin Qiu? I would be fine with either of them, but I
> wouldn't like to be responsible for both.

What is the role of a mentor? I'd like to offer my time, but I cannot
help with all the technical details. Of course I do know enough to
point them in a right direction.

> With the original program schedule, coding was supposed to start on
> June 1st, so we better get through with this as soon as possible.

I prefer BFS and UDF, since I once wrote some docs on the (slightly
older) API, so at least I'd have a head-start.

Niels

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